Chapter 142 The Secret Behind the Acting Method
"No one wants a straight of 5 to 10? That pair of 2s is gone."
Luo Yao Laiting, with black hair, blue eyes and thin eyebrows, played his cards one after another, looked at Xiga and Fry who looked depressed with a smile, and then gathered the coins on the table in front of him.
"…It's your turn to treat me to lunch today."
Frye said coldly.
"No problem, the money we won today is enough for you to eat for a week."
Luo Yao agreed without any hesitation.
"A treat? Then I can't miss it."
Angel pushed open the door of the entertainment room and walked in, followed closely by Leonard, who was wearing a coat with fluttering sleeves.
"Hey, everyone!"
Without waiting for Angel to speak, Leonard knocked on the door with his knuckles, attracting the attention of the three Nighthawks who were "fighting evil". Then he spoke in a reciting tone:
"Please allow me to introduce the lady next to you, Angel Granger, who mastered the Sequence 9 potion in less than two months!"
This is too exaggerated... The creativity of third-rate poets is only so outstanding at times like this.
Angel took a deep breath and almost couldn't hold back the faint smile on his face.
The three Nighthawks looked at each other, their doubts evident in their expressions. Xiga Teon put down the cards in his hand and asked:
"Is this true? I do remember that you took the potion and became a Beyonder shortly before joining the Nighthawks."
"Yes, when you fully master the potion, you will have a distinct feeling, and it will not be confused with other situations, such as loss of control or contamination."
These are among the many cases recorded within the Church where people "mistakenly believed they had mastered the potion." Therefore, whenever a Beyonder applies for early promotion, they face strict scrutiny. This is to prevent overconfident Nighthawks from mistaking their excessive confidence in the precursors to losing control for progress in their control of the potion.
After receiving Angel's affirmative answer, everyone was a little excited, especially Luo Yao. She joined the Nighthawks earlier than Leonard, but at this time she was still a Sequence 9 "Sleepless". Although there was no involution within the church, she still felt a little anxious.
Hearing that Angel had mastered the potion in just two months, she couldn't wait to ask the question that everyone was concerned about:
"How did you do that?"
Surrounded by everyone's burning gazes, Angel could only sit on the sofa in the entertainment room and tell the night watchmen his carefully compiled "experiences" that he had already prepared in his mind.
She had intended to slowly lay the groundwork and then subtly and unnoticeably reveal her acting method, but Leonard's disturbance immediately cost her the initiative.
During the conversation, she looked at Leonard who was standing by the door. He had his arms folded across his chest, pretending to listen attentively, but his eyes were wandering and his mind was somewhere else.
This guy must have done this on purpose... Could it be that he wanted to use me to tell the other teammates about the "acting method"? But why didn't he tell them himself?
Angel reluctantly withdrew his gaze and continued to answer questions for the excited Luo Yao.
…
"That's it. Through these experiences, I summed up my own 'Assassin's Code'. After figuring this out, I felt as if something was rapidly dissolving and spreading within my body, filling it up. I knew this was the sign of complete mastery of the potion."
Angel subtly revealed the "acting method" to several teammates, using Daly, Klein and himself as examples.
She couldn't be more direct, such as saying words like "acting" or "digesting". This would be discovered during the examination, making the examiner think that she deliberately revealed the "acting method" before swearing to keep it secret, which would be detrimental to Ms. Daly who reminded her in advance.
But using successful people as examples seems to have a good effect...
After listening to Angel's statement, Frye and Luo Yao fell into deep thought, and Xiga, who had experience in promotion, frowned and recalled his own experience.
Leonard leaned over and pretended to think.
Angel secretly laughed at this pretentious guy, stood up, said goodbye to his teammates who had already had some enlightenment, and left the entertainment room.
The rest is up to time. With goals and methods, she believes these smart teammates will not let her down.
As soon as she returned to the corridor, she ran into Klein who had returned to the second floor from the basement. Klein was smiling, as if he had successfully achieved his goal.
"Is everything going well over there?"
Crane asked, but soon got the answer from Angel's expression.
"Great! I also spoke with Cornley, who's on duty at Chanis Gate. He just transitioned from a civilian position this year and took a potion to become a Beyonder. It didn't take me long to talk, and he already understood the importance of 'acting'. Perhaps he'll be the fastest to advance to Sequence 8."
He sighed.
"Xijia, Luo Yao, and Frye also know about it. They may need some time to think about it and summarize their own performance rules, but judging by their expressions, they should have gained something. As for Leonard, I think he already knew it."
Angel also reported his own results.
"That's not surprising. He looks like he's hiding a lot of secrets. He's no ordinary guy..." Klein smiled as he looked towards the entertainment room door. "Now all the official members have been notified. Oh, and Old Neil..."
Speaking of the elderly Beyonder who still remained at Sequence 9, Klein's eyes darkened.
"He was a bit agitated and a bit depressed, and kept muttering that he wished he had known this twenty years earlier... Alas, given his current physical condition, he definitely can't be promoted, and he won't be allowed to."
The two of them talked as they walked, crossed the corridor and came to the reception hall. Seeing Luo Shan busying around outside the partition, they stopped beside the partition to avoid her sight.
"Perhaps Old Neil has some unfulfilled wishes, which have become regrets due to his failure to get promoted?"
Angel wondered what the nearly retired Nighthawk was thinking.
Klein sighed again. He turned his head to look towards the entertainment room and Dunn's office. Seeing that no one else had come into the corridor, he whispered, "I'm not going to do that anymore."
"Since the Church knew about the 'Acting Method,' a method that could expedite the mastery of potions and reduce the risk of losing control, why did it conceal it from the Beyonders below? Even those who, like Ms. Daly, realized it on their own, were required to swear an oath to keep it secret from others?"
Realizing that the following conversation was somewhat dangerous, Angel moved a little further away from the partition to avoid being heard by Roxanne, and then lowered his voice to answer:
"I've been thinking about this too. If we simply consider strengthening the Nighthawks' power and maintaining the stability of the Beyonders, publicly disclosing the 'Acting Method' is undoubtedly the best option. However, considering another piece of information I heard from a member of the 'Mechanical Heart'..."
She told Klein about the "Law of Immortality of Extraordinary Characteristics" that she had obtained from Kavi at Enmat Port, and the method derived from it, which was to use the Extraordinary characteristics of deceased Extraordinary people as potion materials for advancement.
"Can the 'Extraordinary Characteristics' released by a deceased Extraordinary be directly used as a potion of the same sequence?"
Klein gasped and repeated with an expression of disbelief.
"That's right. This method doesn't even require knowing the potion's formula. Even without using any auxiliary ingredients, the success rate of upgrading the properties by swallowing it directly is quite high."
...Of course, I was an exception that time.
Angel added in his mind.
"So, the church's leaders are worried that leaking the method will cause the potion to digest too quickly, leading to more Beyonders desperate to advance, resulting in a shortage of potion ingredients and causing some to kill each other and seize Beyonder traits to advance?"
Klein quickly combined the two laws of "acting" and "indestructible Beyonder characteristics" and came to a conclusion that made his scalp tingle.
"This is the only possibility the Church has for concealing the 'Acting Method'. They always send people to recover the Beyonder traits of sacrificed Nighthawks and demand the surrender of the traits of Beyonders killed in Beyonder Events. This is probably all for this purpose... Hmm, perhaps Captain Dunn also knows these secrets."
As Angel finished his speech, he recalled the extraordinary characteristics that Dunn had taken away from Mrs. Sharon.
That's the main ingredient for a Sequence 6 potion!
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